Hamas, Palestine, and CNN

Whatever your feelings are on the existence of a separate nation known as Palestine, the fact of the matter is that the Palestinian people voted in a democratic election, and Hamas has won control over Palestinian government in a landslide of votes. Regardless of whether you feel they should be labelled 'terrorist' or 'militant', whether you see them as a resource providing medical and educational services to the palestinian people or just another fanatical group intent on blowing babies to shreds, CNN has done it again, and shown the world just what total absolute douches head their editorial board.

In a What is Hamas? Interactive popup banner, CNN gives a brief overview of (it's version of) Hamas, likely for the purpose of educating (or brainwashing; again, whichever reading you choose to give it) Americans as to what this mysterious entity is.

An exerpt from the popup reads:

Introduction
Hamas is a fundamentalist group that wants to establish an Islamic state on what it considers "historic Palestine," which includes modern-day Israel.
Its political wing won a landslide victory in Palestinian parliamentary elections, while its armed faction is renowned for attacks on Israelis.
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Hamas' official charter calls for Israel's destruction, but that demand was not central to its platform in the elections. It refuses to recognize the right of the state of Israel to exist and opposes a U.S.-backed two-state solution.
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Its military wing, Izzedine al Qassam, has claimed responsibility for terrorist operations, including suicide bombings in Israel as well as attacks on Israeli troops and Jewish settlers in Gaza and the West Bank.
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Okay, here's my favorite part:
Its fighters have mostly observed a cease-fire for the past year.
Leaders Sheikh Ahmed Yassin and Abdel Aziz Rantisi were killed in Israeli airstrikes.
-cnn.com

It is physically impossible to 'mostly' observe a cease-fire. If you are only mostly observing a cease-fire, it means you aren't observing a cease-fire. Once someone starts kind of firing their gun, the cease-fire is totally unobserved. It's like being mostly pregnant.
Observing a cease-fire is a binomial state. You either observe it, or you don't. It's that simple. If you're mostly observing it, you're also partially violating it. Hey! Another binomial state!


Also, isn't it really cute how they put the line about the Israeli-led assassinations right under the part about mostly observing the cease-fire? Like, without mentioning that the airstrikes took place before the cease-fire came into effect? As if they were trying to say "Oh, all we did was shoot off a couple of guns, but the big bad Jews got us with their big bad planes..."

Hamas' official charter calls for Israel's destruction, but that demand was not central to its platform in the elections.

Oh. Good. I'm glad they swept that under the carpet then. Because it would have been totally embarrassing for the Palestinians if they had elected a party that was all "Hey, vote for us and we'll end the corruption caused by the Fatah and finally send your children to school. And let's go lynch us some Jews, y'all!". You just don't get invited to many social functions after that kind of a faux pas.

Another thing: "Its political wing won a landslide victory in Palestinian parliamentary elections, while its armed faction is renowned for attacks on Israelis" . Am I supposed to take this to mean that the two wings are unaffiliated? Because something inside me tells me that it doesn't work that way. You can try as hard as you might to divest a government of the wrongdoings of it's army, but the political faction carries the full moral and legal responsibility of the actions of it's military/armed faction. If the political faction is saying that they are not in fact responsible for their military wing, then the Hamas military is in fact effecting a military coup, which entirely undermines the democratic process in which they came to power.

What a Catch 22.

And what is this renowned business? Did someone give them an award? Is CNN actually congratulating Hamas for attacking Israelis?

The writer of the pop-up has managed to do two very opposing things at once, which is impressive, to say the least. S/he has a) managed to make the Palestinians look like complete idiots for having chosen such a fanatical and yet wishy-washy (because if you are going to violate a cease-fire, you might as well go all the way. What's this mostly garbage? Syria wouldn't stand for that crap) group to head their people and b) managed to be virulently anti-Zionist and anti-Semitic, all at the same time.
Seriously, that kind of talent deserves a round of applause.

*sound of one hand clapping*

(You really have to ask yourself, a-what kind of drugs were the editors who let this one get by on, and b-where can you get some of that?)

PS: CNN: W.T.F. You guys really need to fire your editors. They're killing you.
PPS: Douchebags.